This little cards are very useful for early reading. They have a dot right under each letter and then an arrow all along. The dots are for segmenting sounds, so I tell my students they are buttons and they have to make the sound of the letter when you push them. Once they did all the sounds, they have to blend them while going throughout the arrow. It is very helpful for them to understand the blending and segmenting sound. I printed a few sets of cards, cut them, laminated them and put them together on a ring so they can use them independently in centers or to take home for reinforcement.